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Dead drive help

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Razer1

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My friend gave me a dead drive that he is desperate to get data off of. I'm trying to use easy recovery to access the data. It appears to access it fine, but the problem is that every time the drive is hooked up, the system runs slow as hell. It takes half an hour just to get into windows, and doing anything else is near impossible. Is there anything I can do to speed things up at all? Does anyone know any alternate methods of data retrival (besides shipping it to a data restore center). Thanks...
 
Originally posted by Razer1
My friend gave me a dead drive that he is desperate to get data off of. I'm trying to use easy recovery to access the data. It appears to access it fine, but the problem is that every time the drive is hooked up, the system runs slow as hell. It takes half an hour just to get into windows, and doing anything else is near impossible. Is there anything I can do to speed things up at all? Does anyone know any alternate methods of data retrival (besides shipping it to a data restore center). Thanks...
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Last drive I recovered I had to disable SMART on the system bios in order to access the drive.

Another thought is to try putting the bad drive on an alternate IDE channel than your OS, remember that on a single IDE channel the speed is going to be whichever is the slowest hard drive. If the computer is having difficulty accessing the bad drive, it can affect both drives if they are on the same channel.
 
Originally posted by SJConsultant
I had to disable SMART on the system bios
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intresting I'll have to remember that ;)

also try the drive you want to recover as a master without slave on that other channel (opposite the OS) or on a PCI controller if you have one, and check the event viewer (Start > Run > (type) compmgmt.msc > Event Viewer > System review for any warnings or errors
and while your at it check the DMA status of the drive > Device Manager > IDE ATA\ATAPI Controllers > (whichever IDE channel it is) > Advanced Settings Tab > (Whichever device it is) > DMA if available and what the current Transfer mode is

if its stuck in PIO currently that would explain alot
independent device timing
Note: It is not possible to use PIO modes to control one device on a channel and DMA (or Ultra DMA) modes to control the other one. Do not mix devices that don't support DMA with ones that do on the same channel, if you want to use DMA.
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if the drive your trying to recover has a problem and where in PIO it would default your good HDD to PIO as well if they are both on the same channel
 
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